Greenspan says real estate bubble won’t pop

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Housing prices may decline, but Alan Greenspan doesn't expect "anything resembling a collapsing bubble," the Federal Reserve chairman told the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday, according to the Washington Times. "I think we're running into certain problems in certain localized areas. We do have characteristics of bubbles in certain areas, but not, as best I can judge, nationwide," Greenspan told the committee, the Times reported. Greenspan said there are housing-price bubbles in certain areas and that prices may go down. "I do believe it is conceivable we will get some reduction in overall prices, as we've had in the past, but that is not a particular problem," Greenspan said, according to media reports. Greenspan was responding to U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.), who t...